Clinical CALM Training – 3.5 hours

The Clinical Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) Clinical Workshop is a 3.5-hour training that aims to help those in mental health, medical, and human service professions to counsel individuals and their families to temporarily reduce access to firearms and dangerous medications during times of heightened suicide risk.

Workshop participants will:

• Be able to provide a rationale for using means safety interventions.
• Articulate multiple options for increasing the safety of firearm storage.
• Outline steps for reducing access to dangerous doses of medication.
• Practice conducting means safety interventions with at-risk individuals and their families through case discussion and role plays.

Questions/General Information:
Jason Hughes, OCPSA
Director of Training and Veteran Relations
Ohio Suicide Prevention Foundation
jason.hughes@ohiospf.org